بَأْجٌ
, also pronounced بَاجٌ, without ء, but the former alone is mentioned by Th in the Fs, and is the chaste word, arabicized, from the Persian بَاهَا, A sort, or species, of food, or viands. Hence the saying, اِجْعَلِ البَأْجَات بَإْجاً وَاحِدًا [Make thou the sorts, or species, of food, or viands, to be one sort, or species]: occurring in a trad., in which it is without ء in each case, accord. to IDrst: several different sorts of food being brought to 'Omar, he asked respecting them, and it was said, [They are] سِكْبَاج and زِرْبَاج and إِسْفِيدْبَاج; whereupon he ordered that the bowls should be brought, and their contents were emptied into one; he saying the words above. IKh says that a man would bring various sorts [of food], and one would say, اِجْعَلْهَا بأْجاً وَاحدِا [Make thou them to be one sort]. The pl. is [بَأْجَاتٌ, as shown above, as though the sing. were بَأْجَةٌ, and] أَبْوَاجٌ. لَأَجْعَلَنَّ النَّاسَ كُلَّهُمْ بَأْجًا وَاحِدًا is [likewise] a saying of 'Omar, meaning [I will assuredly make the people, all of them, to be] one body or assemblage;بَأْجٌ signifying a state of assembling, or collecting together: or [of] one uniform way or mode or manner, as El-Fihree says in the Expos. of the Fs, on the authority of ISd in the book entitled El-'Awees; i. e., in respect of gifts, or allowances: accord. to IAar, it is from بَأْجٌ or بَاجٌ signifying a uniform line of road. You say also, النَّاسُ بَأْجٌ وَاحِدٌThe people are [as] one thing. And هُمْ فِى أَمْرٍ بَأْجٍThey are [in one and the same, or] in an equal, or a uniform, case. And جَعَلَ الكَلَامَ بَأْجاًوَاخِدًاHe made the speech, or language, to be [uniform, or] of one mode, or manner. And اِجْعَلْ هٰذا الشَّىْءَ بَأْجًا وَاحِدًاMake thou this thing to be [uniform, or] of one way, or mode, or manner. And اِجْعَلِ الأَمْرَ بَأْجًا وَاحِدًاMake thou the affair, or case, [uniform, or] one uniform thing.
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